JS $numberformat

[Michael Houlberg]

Listers,

I'm working with the javascript client these days, still learning a lot.  I'd like to get nicer looking numbers in remote form edit fields.  The docs say this about the $numberformat property:

"The $numberformat property uses a single % format tag for the number followed by one or more elements, for example, the number format %.2F displays a number with 2 decimal places with a thousand separator…"

I'm not getting what I expect with this at all.  Do I need to put quotes around this, or enter some other kind of function with this string inside it?  Id' love to at least get a thousands separator.  I already round all my calculations to 2 decimals.  A dollar sign would be like icing.  A percent format would be really cool too.

I just need two kinds of numbers right now, dollars and percents.  I'd like to show numbers in these ways:

1260.20 as $1,260.20

.10 as 10%

Has anyone figured this out?

Thanks,
Michael Houlberg
Houlberg Development, LLC